PluginStatsCity Lights theme installs statistics
By Yummygum (2 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Themes
The City Lights Color Theme is a gorgeous dark color theme designed with focus in mind.
City Lights theme has 314,545 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #1114 of 2,502 tracked listings.
Rating: 4.95 / 5 from 20 ratings
About City Lights theme
City Lights Color Theme
If you encounter bugs with the colors.
Add "editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": false, to your settings.json.
The City Lights Color Theme is a gorgeous dark syntax theme designed with focus in mind. City Lights Color Theme has many custom made visual aids to help you code faster and more accurate. Over eight of the most popular coding languages are currently supported.
This City Lights Color Theme is a part of City Lights; suite of beautiful matte dark themed goodies for Atom & Visual Studio Code. For more information, please go to http://citylights.xyz.
Install
- Open Extensions sidebar panel in VS Code.
View → Extensions - Search for
City Lights theme - Click Install
- Click Reload
- File > Preferences > Color Theme > City Lights
GitHub Repository Clone
Change to your .vscode/extensions VS Code extensions directory.
Depending on your platform it is located in the following folders:
- <img src="https://www.kernel.org/theme/images/logos/favicon.png" width=16 height=16/> Linux
~/.vscode/extensions - <img src="https://developer.apple.com/favicon.ico" width=16 height=16/> macOs
~/.vscode/extensions - <img src="https://www.microsoft.com/favicon.ico" width=16 height=16/> Windows
%USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions
Clone the theme repository as city-lights-theme:
git clone https://github.com/Yummygum/city-lights-syntax-vsc.git city-lights-theme
Afterwards, you will need to activate the theme via
File > Preferences > Color Theme > City Lights
Feedback/Issues
Are you enjoying the City Lights Color Theme? Don't hesitate to share your excitement. Also let us know if you'd like to see any specific syntax added by creating a Github issue.
License
The following licensing applies to City Lights Syntax Theme: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more information go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Donate
The City Lights Color Theme is available for free. If you're enjoying the City Lights Syntax Theme, feel free to help us crank out updates even faster by donating a coffee to us via PayPal.
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Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Yummygum.city-lights-theme. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 21, 2026. See the methodology.